Psalms 39:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear{H8685)} unto my cry; hold not thy peace{H8799)} at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּֽתוֹכָ֘ח֤וֹת עַל־עָוֺ֨ן ׀ יִסַּ֬רְתָּ אִ֗ישׁ וַתֶּ֣מֶס כָּעָ֣שׁ חֲמוּד֑וֹ אַ֤ךְ הֶ֖בֶל כָּל־אָדָ֣ם סֶֽלָה׃

Transliteration

With-tôkāḥôt upon-ʿāwōn yissartā ʾîš and-temes like-ʿāš ḥămûdô ʾak hebel all-ʾādām selāh

Grammar Details

*tôkāḥôt*: noun, feminine plural with prefixed preposition 'bə' - with reproofs
*ʿāwōn*: noun, masculine singular with prefixed preposition 'al' - for iniquity
*yissartā*: verb, piel perfect 2nd person masculine singular - you discipline
*ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular - man
*temes*: verb, hiphil imperfect 2nd person masculine singular with prefixed conjunction 'wa' - and you melt away
*ʿāš*: noun, masculine singular with prefixed preposition 'kə' - like a moth
*ḥămûdô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his desired things
*ʾak*: adverb - surely/only
*hebel*: noun, masculine singular - vanity/breath
*ʾādām*: noun, masculine singular with prefixed 'kol' - every man
*selāh*: musical notation - selah

Word Meanings

*tôkāḥôt*: reproofs/corrections/rebukes
*ʿāwōn*: iniquity/guilt/punishment for iniquity
*yissartā*: you discipline/chasten/correct
*temes*: you melt away/consume/dissolve
*ʿāš*: moth/insect that destroys clothes
*ḥămûdô*: his desired things/precious things/beauty
*hebel*: vapor/breath/vanity/emptiness

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Gen 47:9 : 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Heb 11:13 : 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Lev 25:23 : 23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
2 Kgs 20:5 : 5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.
Ps 56:8 : 8 Thou tellest{H8804)} my wanderings: put{H8798)} thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
Ps 102:1 : 1 A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
Ps 116:3 : 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
1 Pet 1:17 : 17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
Ps 119:54 : 54 Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
2 Cor 5:6 : 6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
Heb 5:7 : 7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
Job 16:20 : 20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
2 Sam 16:12 : 12 It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.

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